Saturday 17 October 2015

October 16th What Do A Bull and Orchids Have In Common?

The answer to my question is nothing - apart from the fact that both factored into my one day. I started the day South of Hamilton collecting fresh milk from a dairy farm to make some cheese this weekend.

Whilst in the neighbourhood, I spotted one of the local big boys, who thank goodness only came up to the fence to say hello and then went back to his business. I felt sorry for the poor chap as whilst he was here, only a few hundred metres away, his ladies were being artificially inseminated. He did bellow out his displeasure at this injustice




That was the start of day. Then we got to end of day and from starting the day South of Hamilton, we headed North to West Auckland, to Kumeu (well Riverhead to be exact).  We were on a mercy mission... to save some Orchids. What wasn't sold, would be dumped!!!  Well we didn't expect to find this - and there were two of these - what you see here was the same length in the other direction, and the width matched one half of the length. And there were not one but two of these greenhouses



What was in these gargantuan greenhouses? Orchids for Africa.. Orchids in every direction



What did we head home with? Apart from the obvious Orchids. A van packed to the brim with Orchids. They insisted on filling the van to the brim, and we drove home with a jungle in the back. I was almost expecting Tarzan to start bellowing out wanting to be released


I had better leave you with some pretty pictures







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